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2 HASTINGS MAIL, AUGUST 3, 2011
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Orchiston's legacy
Unique species: Hastings kaumatua Jerry Hapuku gives
some flax planting tips to Environment Minister Nick Smith
in Hastings last Thursday at the opening of a new wetland
area. Hastings mayor Lawrence Yule can also be seen on
the shovel in the background.
The legacy of late flax collector Rene Orchiston is set to
continue for another 50 years, with more than 1000
plants grown from her original collection to take pride of
place in a new wetland area in Hastings.
Ms Orchiston, a weaver and craftswoman from Gis-
borne, started a flax collection in the 1950s to preserve
the unique native species and continue flax weavers'
access to their traditional supplies.
In 1987 she donated her collection to Landcare
Research at Havelock North, before Hastings District
Council took over guardianship of the collection last
year.
Eventually 1600 flax plants grown from her original
50 cultivars will be planted at the wetland area, which
is next to the new Longlands Rd roundabout on the
southern extension of the Hawke's Bay expressway.
The district council will work to support and develop
local weavers as kaitiaki (caretakers and guardians) to
preserve and protect the plants at the plantation.
The wetland was officially opened on Thursday by
Environment Minister Nick Smith, in a ceremonial
planting ceremony attended by members of the Orchi-
ston family, Hastings mayor Lawrence Yule and
Hawke's Bay regional council chairman Fenton Wilson.
Dr Smith said it was important to protect flax, or
harakeke as it is called in Maori, which was one of
40,000 species that were endemic to New Zealand.
In England there was only one endemic species.
In New Zealand we have 40,000 species, he said.
It's important for us to preserve those things that are
unique to the islands of New Zealand.''
Ms Orchiston died in Gisborne last October. Her son,
Allan, who took part in the planting ceremony, said his
mother would have approved of the site for her collec-
tion.
The trees will encourage birds like tui to come and
nest, and then they will feed off the flowers of the flax.
It's a great site,'' he said.
The district council has taken the lead on the project,
which has been supported by the regional council and
the New Zealand Transport Agency.
Stewart
a sell-out
Tickets for next year's Rod Stew-
art concert at the Mission have
sold out.
Event organiser Garry Craft
said more than 24,000 tickets had
sold within 24 hours of going on
sale to Mission Concert Club
members at noon on Saturday.
The remaining tickets went on
sale at 9am on Monday and were
gone before 11am. Ticket sales for
the concert, on February 25 next
year, are limited to 25,000.
Mr Craft was not surprised at
the speed of sales, after the popu-
larity of Stewart's appearance in
2005 when tickets sold out in a
record 22 minutes.
It was as a result of that con-
cert that the event's organisers
began giving members advance
sales two days before the public.
Stewart's popularity is also
why he was chosen to mark the
event's 20th anniversary, he said.